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I don't know this Steve Klein. I don't know what bull*** he uses to sell Audio Note's products in the US. If that is what you are attempting to satirise then fine.

I am quite familiar with Audio Note Japan's (Kondo) products. I don't use any at the moment except some of the cabling and the step-up transformers. I have listened alot recently to the latest Io cartridge, the M77 pre-amp and the Gakuoh push pull power amps. All of these items can, in my view, make listening to music a very rewarding experience.  For that, I think they can be praised. There is much equipment out there that is at similar prices and which falls well short of the performance achieved by these items. God knows, CES is full of it every year. Why try to make fun of a company that does take the sound of components and circuit topologies seriously (even if you don't share those tastes) when there are so many other companies who really don't care whether their products are any good so long as the marketing is done right.

I know you don't particularly like the AN products you've tried. But then you like things like the EAR phono stage and the Koetsu Onyx cartridge! There's no accounting for taste.

I know Mr Kondo. He's a very nice, humble guy. He's not some mercenary, bull*** spouting scam artist.
Maybe his distributor is and that's the source of your indignation.
 
I do wonder about your motivation for writing some of this.  I also wonder why, if what you are now using amplifierwise is so much better than anything else, you don't either have it manufactured (so we all have the opportunity to enjoy its greatness) or at least post the schematics so we can build our own.

best regards,

Guy

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